No. 10 Michigan St. shocks No. 2 Ohio St. 34-24

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Connor Cook was determined to shake things up in the Big Ten title game.

By the end of the night, the sophomore quarterback’s teammates were bouncing up and down right along with him.

No. 10 Michigan State rallied from a seven-point third-quarter deficit by scoring the final 17 points Saturday night to upset No. 2 Ohio State 34-24 and deny the Buckeyes a chance to play for the BCS national championship.

Cook and the Spartans were more than happy to oblige.

”I think we heard people talk bad about us all year. This wasn’t the first week where we heard people say negative things about us as an offense or as a football team, Cook said after throwing a 9-yard TD pass with 11:41 left to give the Spartans a 27-24 lead. ”I think we were underdogs in the majority of the games we played this year. It really didn’t affect us.”